Dave's Recordings

For many years now, Nick Rabett has been producing beautiful
black and white photographs of musicians who have gigged at the club.
Until 2011, almost all of the photos in the brochure, and all of the popup and display
photographs are his, except for some older photographs that were
in the stairwell of The Fleece (which we no longer have room for).
While Nick is no longer associated with the club, we treasure his photography.

Two people have come up trumps with photographs: Peter Fairman has been taking pictures at most of our recent gigs.
Peter Evans takes pictures of some of our big events.
Both can be seen in our gallery.

and in Professor Peter Holman's front lounge

Clip quality

The clips are mp3's, so the quality will not be at CD level. The recordings
themselves are, in fact, better than CD quality.

Some notes on recording

The club, through Dave, now has the facilities for recording gigs. They are done for archival purposes
(with the express permission of the musicians), or by request, and are not available for sale or copy.

If a band wants to request a recording, contact dave@jazzatthefleece.org.uk, and
please, a little notice and a rig spec are really appreciated.

The recordings can be done in two ways.

A stereo pair can be used, picking up the ambient sound.

Up to 28 tracks (10 is normal) can be recorded, and later mixed (not that I have access to that many mics!)

For multi-track recording, the sound direct from the mic preamps is used, unequalised, no reverb,
providing the largest amount of information from which to mix. A typical big mix might be

Piano - contact mics and an ambient mic

Sax - a bug is nice, otherwise a 57B or MK012

Trumpet - SM58 or 57B or MK012. Equalisation for mutes is done at the mix stage